Silver Creek Capital Management, founded in 1999 by former senior vice presidents with Solomon Smith Barney Eric Dillon and Timothy Flaherty, was born from a private investment fund manager the duo set up in 1994. The Seattle, Washington based firm has come a long way since then, growing assets from $1.78 billion in 2003, the first year it qualified for Alpha’s Fund of Funds 50 ranking, to $5.29 billion today. But Silver Creek has had it’s share of struggles over the past 15 years. Silver Creek’s assets peaked in 2008 at just more than $9 billion and have declined gradually every year since…